Can ‘Differentiated Integration’ Lead to a Federationin Europe?

• Authors: Grosse Tomasz Grzegorz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article explores whether the phenomenon of ‘differentiated integration’ can accelerate the federalisation of the European Union. In particular, it analyses the crisis of the euro area (focused on the period 2010–2014). Did this crisis favour reforms which could turn the EU into a democratic federation? Could the trend towards differentiated integration (or the concept of the so-called ‘two-speed Europe’) facilitate the creation of a federation? Ordoes it feed political and systemic tendencies that run opposite to federalism?

Keywords

EN

differentiated integration; political segmentation; intergovernmentalism; confederation; federation

• Publisher: Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Yearbook of Polish European Studies
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 15-38

Contributors

author

Grosse Tomasz Grzegorz

• University of Warsaw